Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953). After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.

Cast

The Scent of Incense
Taromaru
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Unknown
The Day England Falls
Unknown
Red Beard
Kin, the madam
Jidanya
Unknown
Late Spring
Masa Taguchi
Early Spring
Tamako Tamura
Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
G-Men of Japan
Unknown
Youth After School
Ayako
The End of Summer
Katou Shige
Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Unknown
Late Chrysanthemums
Kin
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge
Four Seasons of Women
Osone
Musume to watashi
Unknown
Repast
Matsu Murata
Flowing
Someka
Their Legacy
Unknown
Floating Weeds
Oyoshi
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Unknown
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother
Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko
Early Summer
Tami Yabe
Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Unknown
Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura
Samurai Assassin
Tsuru
A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto
The Broken Commandment
School master's wife
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother
Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone
Summer Clouds
Mother
Only Child
Unknown
The Petrified Forest
Unknown
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin
White Heron
Unknown
A Diary of Our Love
Unknown
Spring Awakens
Unknown
The Story of Shunkin
Unknown
The Romance of Yushima
Unknown
Umi no tora
Unknown
The Conspirator
Unknown
Kanchō umi no bara
Unknown
The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
愛情の旋風
Unknown
Dorei kōjō
Unknown
Army
Setsu
The Gambler's Code
Oroku
Freedom School
Unknown
Hadaka no Machi
Unknown
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Unknown
Temptation
Tokie
Samurai of the Great Earth
Unknown
The Written Face
Self
The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
Umi o yobu koe
Unknown
The Rokumeikan
Unknown
The Rokumeikan
Unknown
Buddha
Vaidehi
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Unknown
Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai
Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Unknown
Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother
Deep River Melody
Unknown
Life of Geisha
Unknown
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe
The Wiser Age
Aki
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko
Spring on Leper's Island
Unknown
Great X
Taka
Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
I Lived, But...
Self
Mother
Yoshie
Runway to Hell
Okuma
Reminiscence
Chikako
Children Hand in Hand
Unknown
The Three Treasures
Narrator
The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother
Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino
The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma
Wedding Day
Unknown
The Navy
Unknown
Sakura-tai Chiru
Unknown
Forbidden Path
Unknown
Sunflower Girl
Unknown
Namiko
Unknown
Three-Fingered Detective
Unknown
With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother
Onna no hanamichi
Unknown
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Unknown
Nightingale
Midwife Yae
The Glorious Days
Unknown
The Wind Blows Twice
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Beauty of Life
Unknown
Tale of Jiro
Unknown
Ōhinata-mura
Unknown
Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie